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236. Hosting Hotline: The Best Bedding For An Airbnb Wedding Venue · Thanks For Visiting

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  Sarah: Hello.
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  Welcome back from the great episode.
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  My name is Sarah Karakaian.
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  Annette: I am Annette Grant.
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  And together we are--
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  Both Sarah and Annette: Thanks for Visiting.
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  Sarah: And this is the--
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  Both Sarah and Annette: Hosting Hotline.
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  Sarah: Get excited.
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  Today we have a question about a wedding venue that's going
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  to be having overnight stays.
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  Questions: My name is Amelia Holder.
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  I'm the owner of Emerson Fields wedding venue in Central Missouri, and we are
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  a destination type of wedding venue.
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  We will be adding lodging later this year, and I am just now
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  starting to source linens, bedding, towels, those types of things.
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  And I was just curious if you have a recommendation on the best
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  place to source those linens from.
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  Also just kind of weighing options.
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  Do you go with something less expensive think if it gets stained, no big
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  deal, it's going to be disposed of.
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  Or do you go with something more high end, thinking that it needs
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  to endure lots of visitors and, um, it will hold up over time.
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  So just curious about your thoughts on that.
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  I enjoy listening.
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  Thanks so much.
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  My wedding venue is Emerson Fields Venue on Instagram.
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  Sarah: She gives her email and we don't want to put her on blast.
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  Annette: But check out Emerson Fields because it's lovely.
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  Amelia, I have a question for you.
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  I'm looking to source a husband.
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  Um, since you have a great wedding venue, could you let me know?
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  I don't want a low quality disposable.
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  I want on the higher end, so, uh, if you have any suitors I'm
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  looking for sourcing a husband.
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  I got to put it out there.
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  I mean, I got the air waves, Sarah.
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  Sarah: No, I cannot wait--
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  Annette: Sarah is stunned right now.
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  She is
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  Sarah: I cannot wait see this customer service emails that
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  are come in after Oh that.
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  PSA.
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  Annette: Hey, Amelia, if you find my suitor, I will get
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  married at Emerson Fields.
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  All right.
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  It's a win-win.
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  All right, let's help her up.
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  Sarah: Okay.
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  Annette: You scratch my back.
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  I scratch yours.
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  Sarah: Back to bedding.
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  Annette: Ooh, we're taking it there now.
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  Ooh, we're going straight to the honeymoon.
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  Sarah: We're going straight to the honeymoon because, that's
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  the business that Amelia is in.
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  Annette: Yeah, she's in the bedding business.
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  Sarah: She really is.
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  Annette: Now she is.
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  First of all, we love that you're even thinking ahead of time on this.
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  And I do want to say our team is here and they're actually--
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  there's a live recording from our team, Chloe and Colleen.
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  So they're actually giving us some good tips.
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  Chloe has some experience in wedding photography and videography, and then
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  Colleen said something really great.
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  We just want to put this out there.
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  Weddings are a different breed when it comes to bedding because there's
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  going to be a lot of spray tan.
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  There's going to be a lot of makeup and a lot of people that are too tired
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  or maybe had partied too hard and don't want to remove their makeup.
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  So you do have maybe a little bit more potential staining that's
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  going to happen on the bedding.
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  But Sarah, take it away on, on your thoughts.
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  Sarah: Well, she asked for a recommendation.
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  So there obviously, Amelia, are a myriad of options for you.
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  But I will say until recently, until some brands have come out with great
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  solutions for short-term rental hosts to tap us into the world of essentially
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  wholesale and group purchasing, I will be honest, I went to Amazon to
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  find really inexpensive bedding that I could toss and it was microfiber.
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  It didn't wrinkle easily.
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  Annette: Quick to dry.
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  Sarah: Well, it's not that quick to dry.
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  And then, so when--
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  Annette: Your equipment matters too.
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  Sarah: It does.
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  And also it's hard to tell, even if you try to be as organized as possible,
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  it's really hard to tell what's a twin, what's a fool, what's a queen?
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  What's a king?
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  So I was desperate for something that had some sort of identifier
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  other than my fabric marker--
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  Annette: Which also washes off.
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  Sarah: Which sometimes washes off or like, or the team would forget to bring their--
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  anyway, so it wasn't ideal situation.
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  What we use is we are members of Host GPO, which is a group purchasing
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  organization, and they have a great partnership with Standard Textile,
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  which is a hospitality wholesale brand.
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  If you stay at the Hilton, you're going to see Standard Textile
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  or Hilton by Standard Textile.
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  If you start to look at the actual tags, if you're going to a true
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  hotel, you'll see that most of the linens are by Standard Textile.
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  Annette: Yeah.
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  Sarah: There's other hospitality brands out there, but Host
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  GPO and other brands like it.
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  Manoan has other partnerships with bedding, but what we've been
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  using, and Amelia asked us for our recommendation is Standard Textile.
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  And I like it because the thread is color coded.
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  It is a blend, so it is equal parts, easy to remove stains, doesn't wrinkle
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  easily, but stands up to time and doesn't-- you know, sometimes when
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  your fitted sheets ends up getting tight on the ends and it's really
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  hard to stretch it over the mattress after so much like that won't happen.
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  Annette: My pants after I eat.
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  Oh, sorry.
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  I'm with the jokes today.
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  We have an audience, live
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  Sarah: Oh my gosh.
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  I lost my train of thought, Annette.
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  Annette: Oh, and I only give you the-- I think the biggest, well, not
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  the biggest, but something amazing about the standard textile sheets.
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  They come laundered.
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  If you have been through the lovely adventure of setting up a short-term
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  rental and not having the towels and the sheets pre laundered, it adds days.
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  So the fact that these all come pre laundered is a huge time saver.
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  Sarah: And Standard Textile does have different lines, so you could go for
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  their basic line if you wanted to, amelia.
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  They have a middle of the line, they have a top of the line.
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  And the way Host GPO packages it is when you join Host GPO, you can say I have
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  three kings, four queens, and two twins.
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  And they magically do the math in the back of how many pillows you'll probably need.
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  And then once you get to the checkout, you'll be able to edit
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  it, but it's pretty brilliant.
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  They're not as cheap as what you can find Amazon, Amelia,
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  but I've found they last longer.
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  Our guests love them and they're quick to dry, which if your laundry situation
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  is not perfect, then this might be a great way to stay on top of it.
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  Annette: Amelia, you did not ask this, but I want to parlay into this, a great
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  point actually, Colleen brought up too.
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  Where and how are you doing this laundry?
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  Okay.
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  That is actually probably one of the biggest questions you should
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  be asking yourself now is how many beds are there are going to be?
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  How much laundry are you going to be responsible for in between those turns
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  and where are you going to be doing that?
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  That's something-- please think ahead of time.
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  It's going to save you lots of time in the long run.
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  And you also mentioned, Amelia, I think you said something like-- obviously
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  you focused on the sheets and towels, but I think you did bring up beds too.
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  Again, like Sarah said, Host GPO and also Minoan, we're going to
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  tag both of them in the show notes.
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  If you are a host and you're looking to purchase any of these
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  things, please look at both of them.
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  Um, they both have different options.
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  Standard textile specifically on Host GPO, but if you're looking for mattresses, any
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  other furnishings, Minoan's on there too.
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  So we just have to bring both of those to you.
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  They'll be in the show notes, but Amelia, good luck.
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  Sarah: Wait.
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  One more quick.
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  Amelia, also, they also have mattress protectors and pillow protectors.
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  They have blankets.
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  They have all your towels that you might need, again, different levels.
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  Standard Textile has all the things.
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  Annette: The pillow protectors, Sarah and I had a call with someone, not so
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  recently, but they were blown away.
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  They didn't even know what a pillow protector was.
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  Sarah: What!
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  Who was that?
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  Annette: Well, maybe you weren't on that call.
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  I was on that independently.
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  And I don't know about you, but there's drill.
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  Drill happens, people.
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  Okay?
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  Sarah: If you're like Annette eating pizza in bed--
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  Annette: You really need pillow.
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  Don't stop at the mattress protector.
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  You need the pillow protector.
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  Sarah: Amelia, when you're shopping for Annette's future suitor,
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  can you please let that person know that she does pizza in bed.
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  Annette: You need to double up on the pillow protectors.
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  I'm just joking.
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  Sarah: With that, I am Sarah Karakaian.
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  Annette: I am Annette Grant, and together we are--
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  Both Sarah and Annette: Thanks for Visiting.
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  Sarah: We'll talk to you next time.